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Magpie’s Vintage Restorations

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Magpie’s Vintage Restorations

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09/30/2021

After 15 years in a box, I finally got around to getting this beauty up and ticking again!

08/14/2021

Getting ready to STRIP tonight at 8pm. This 30’s antique six legged side table is way to cool to be spray painted green! Hoping a nice walnut finish awaits. 🤞🏼👀 Stay tuned…

07/12/2021

Competed a new and tedious paint job on this fabulous 1940’s Hollywood Regency hutch by Medallion Limited of Miami. It’s finished in satin Swiss coffee and Behr Thai Basil. It was forgotten and tucked away in a dusty storage locker and I picked it up for $80 bucks. I had a hunch that this hutch was something special and after doing a little research, I found one selling at auction for $8500! This one is a keeper.

02/08/2021

Restoration finished on three old chairs! 1882 Hunzinger Lollipop Platform Rocker, 1910 Gustav Stickley and Heywood Brothers & Wakefield Company mission chairs in finished in bison. These three are all keepers! 🪑

01/23/2021

Here is a lot of 1940’s and 50’s bakelite radios I picked up a few months ago. I have been mostly restoring wood radios and excited to bring these beauties back to life!

01/07/2021

Finished a chassis restoration on this 1941 Zenith console radio with it’s all original and beautiful 79 year wood veneer cabinet. This one is a keeper! 👍

12/22/2020

Restoration started on this 1936 Silvertone 4587 gold dial console radio with flash tunning. Looks like a nice finish is under the funky stained front.

12/18/2020

Before and after restoration photos of this Victorian piano stool with claw and glass ball feet!

12/15/2020

Refinished the cabinet on this funky 1961 Punto Blanco “Electronik” radio from Mexico!

12/11/2020

I am helping a friend sell this rare and beautiful 1926 Columbia located in Brentwood, Ca! This car was produced from 1916 until 1924 in Detroit Michigan.

It was called Columbia Six and only 5,903 were made by Columbia Motor Car Company by William E. Metzger, the founder of E M F company & and A.T. O’Connor, formerly of Olds and Packard. The car was assembled with a Continental six engine. Timkens axles and bearings, Detroit Self-Lubricating springs, Warner transmission and steering gear, it has a Borg & Beck clutch, Stromberg carburetor, and a Harrison radiator. The Columbia sold for under $2,000 and where nicely finished. The Columbia Motor Car Co. bought the Liberty Motor Car Company and both went bankrupt in 1924.

This car is considered a Light Six with a 6-cyl. 50 hp and a 115” wheel base. The car has a large rear seating area with room for three and is called a five-passenger sedan. It has mo-hair upholstery with bud vases. The transmission is three speed & mechanical brakes. The car weight is 1395 lbs.

When I purchased the car it was in Columbia, Missouri and as I lived in Columbia, Calif. I felt it was a car to have. The car had, at one time, been in a museum for years and the prior owner also had a Columbia Touring car. He had done extensive research and found only 7 cars to still exist. Current odometer reads 27,416 miles. $11,500. Run and drives.

11/02/2020

Excited to find these two beautiful 1925 chandeliers that came out of an old house in San Francisco near Lincoln and 16th. The original finish should clean up nicely!

10/28/2020

Restoration has started on this impressive George Hunzinger flip top game table. This round gaming table has a mahogany veneered top which reverses to reveal a gaming table with a felt covering.

George Hunzinger was a furniture maker who emigrated to the United States from Germany in 1855. He manufactured uniquely designed furniture in New York City during the latter half of the 19th century. He patented his innovative designs. This gaming table is U.S. Patent No. 522014, granted on June 26, 1894.

Hunzinger also designed the “lollipop” platform rocker I am also restoring.

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